Its finally here the New EU Data Protection Final Text has been approved by Brussels

April 15, 2016

Thanks to DataIQ for another great and timely press release keeping us Data Passionate people in Ireland up to date.

The new EU Data Protection final text otherwise known as the GDPR, ‘General Data Protection Regulation’, has been finally approved by the EU Parliament and Council last week.

In simple terms it means that the GDPR text will not be amended further and is now in its final state ready to be made into law in the coming months.

You have two years to implement all of the compliance requirements in your organisation and then like the tax man the responsibility is on you and your colleagues to be fully GDPR informed in other words ignorance of the compliance requirements will not be an excuse.

The IDMA will publish a Direct Marketing guideline for the Irish market place over the coming months and will host a series of events explaining the GDPR in full and the impact it will have on your organisation.

These events will be FREE to IDMA members and €50 for non members so one more reason to join the IDMA today.

I hope you have a great weekend while I am ferrying my kids around to four different birthday parties. Who invented Kids birthday parties where the whole school class is invited I need to talk to them!!!